In Acrobat X, File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF >
I do not have the Enable Commenting & Measuring option. I only have the Enable Forms Fill in & Save in Acrobat Reader option. Does anyone know why I don’t have the option. Thank you.

I have just installed reader x, and use it for marking up large drawings, normally marked up by different clients on sheets sizes from A3 to A0 – is there anyway the highlighter tool – an excellent feature btw, can be adapted so that as with a normal highlighter an area can be circled? or do I still need to print and scan back in.

MP :
In Acrobat X, File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF >
I do not have the Enable Commenting & Measuring option. I only have the Enable Forms Fill in & Save in Acrobat Reader option. Does anyone know why I don’t have the option. Thank you.

MP– Is that product deployed? Was it a single (Stand alone) installation? It might have been disabled while creating the installation package by the admin using the customization wizard. Is this acrobat X standard? Although i guess it is available in both flavors of Acrobat X.

MS :
I have just installed reader x, and use it for marking up large drawings, normally marked up by different clients on sheets sizes from A3 to A0 – is there anyway the highlighter tool – an excellent feature btw, can be adapted so that as with a normal highlighter an area can be circled? or do I still need to print and scan back in.

MS– highlighter is used to highlight a line or word (I am talking about the yellow inked marker that has fluorescent color). If you want to highlight an area, use a rectangle tool or circle tool. Is there any way i am wrong or misunderstood you?

I’m having the same problem as MP posted on January 26, 201, in that the Enable Commenting & Measuring option is not available. Our IT guy just checked the installed options, all of which are enabled, but still nothing.
Any other ideas, this is really holding up our document reviews.
Thanks,
JM

Where in Document Properties can I tell if a PDF was saved with this “Reader Extended PDF > Enable Commenting & Measuring”, and has “email review” and “shared review workflow”?

I have various PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x) documents made by Acrobat Distiller 6.0, they all say Commenting: Allowed in Document Properties > Security. When I view them in Standalone Adobe Reader there is has no “Drawing Markups” palette under Comments; when I view them in the Adobe Reader Mozilla plug-in the palette is there, but all the tools in it seem disabled. Please fix Reader’s document properties so it better indicates what features are available.

I received a document that I am able to add comments to in Reader X, but even thought he highlighter is “available” it doesn’t do anything. When I select it, I get a different cursor, but I’m unable to select any text. What is the trick to the highlighter?

No trick really. You just need to select some text. So in this particular document there might not be any “text”. What you think is text could just as well be an image that contains text. Could you try on another document and see if the highlighter works?

When creating PDF Documents using Acrobat 9.4.7 Standard (or it’s Distiller component), commenting is always “Not Allowed” in the standalone reader.
This is a corporate computer and I am not allowed to “simply” update to $adobeProductVersion.
Is there a way to save PDF documents using Acrobat 9.4.7 Standard so that commenting will be allowed for the standalone Adobe Reader?

I’m a writer/author and my editor likes to use Adobe Reader for editing/commenting my work. This is a frustrating process for me since it seems that Reader has a tough time where there are a lot of comments. I’m currently working on a piece that has over 500 comments for the entire document. Some of the issues I’m seeing are:
– Slowness to scroll
– Slowness to respond to clicks
– Clicking the up/down arrows on the scroll bar sometimes causes scrolling through multiple pages instead of next/previous comment.
– It doesn’t keep track of where I left off. I always have to go hunting for where I left off, even though I save before exiting.

It would be really nice if the product’s tools WORKED!!!!! I’ve been able to use the highlighter tool in the past, but all of a sudden, POOF! It doesn’t work anymore. I’m so glad I installed the most recent update and lost a feature that worked perfectly well before I installed the improvements.

I can’t read comments that someone made on my PDF. I see the sticky notes, but when I click on them, nothing happens. Under the comments list it states, “this document has no comments.” I’m using the free Reader XI. I believe the person who left comments is using the paid version. Is this the issue? Or did he save his comments incorrectly?? I checked the security on the file and it states that commenting is allowed. What are we doing wrong?

I empathize with responses #21 & 22 w.r.t. highlight tool not working in my own Adobe Reader XI for Mac. Where is Adobe on this highlight problem? Has there already been, or will there be a fix soon, or at least a response from Adobe? Seems like such a simple problem to put back a previously working feature!? It is not also nice, but absolutely NECESSARY that all tools work out of the box. Especially w.r.t. free stuff like AR where such things can make or break future sales of upgrades. Hope this isn’t an Adobe attitude that users can’t complain if they are getting it for free!?

OK. So here’s what I was finally able to figure out through trial and error. I created a WORD file using Comic Sans Serif font, and then saved it as a pdf. Then, when I opened it with Adobe Reader XI, I was NOT able to highlight any text in this “Comic Sans Serif pdf”, but it appears that I was able to do other commenting such as sticky notes, add arrows, etc. So, just for the heck of it, I created another WORD document using what appears to be the default font, i.e. Cambria (body) 12, and saved this document as a pdf. When I viewed this one using AR XI, I was now able to highlight text in it. So, it appears that the font of the original document may be the clue as to whether or not one is able to highlight the pdf of this font, or not. Confirmation of this would be much appreciated from someone (anyone) in Adobe, along with a definitive list of fonts that are either compatible or not compatible with Adobe Reader XI.

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